These are common criminals not much different than the Russian mobsters, Sicilian mobsters where Italy was at war with their organization, or the Colombian or Mexican drug cartels where terror and murder are tools to further enrich their criminal enterprise. These criminals are clever enough to use ideology to attract misfits into the criminal enterprise, but like the Sicilian mobsters they can blend right into the civilian population. This idea that traditional nation state deployments of military are the solution, is not really the answer. We need to support the Iraq government in dealing with this criminal element. We need to support a regional Arab response to the criminality, but it should start by cutting off their funding of the criminal enterprise. With the alliance military responses, their pocketbooks are getting killed, and the more desperate they are becoming for funding sources. It is a game attrition and patience which but for our huge mistakes of deployment in Iraq, these type of criminal enterprises would have been handled by the governments in place. We do not solve a thing by doubling down on bad policy. These are common criminals engaged in a criminal enterprise.....they should be treated accordingly. Criminals always try to terrorize civilians and governments when they are threatened.